Since it was first unveiled in June, interest in the Apache Polaris project has soared, as organizations look to the metadata catalog to help them get a handle on their big data and control access to their Apache Iceberg tables. As the project drives toward becoming a Top Level Project sometime in 2025, members of the Apache Software Foundation took some time to discuss the current state of the project with BigDATAwire, as well as where it may go in the future.
Apache Polaris, which made its big debut at Snowflake’s Data Cloud Summit 2024, is a technical metadata catalog that uses the Apache Iceberg REST specification to help broker access to Iceberg tables by the various compute engines that would consume the data. Snowflake donated Polaris to the Apache Software Foundation this summer, and it became an incubating project in August.
Polaris has the potential of becoming a Top Level Project (TLP) by the middle of 2025, says Jean-Baptiste (JB) Onofré, Dremio’s principal software engineer and a longtime member of the ASF, where he is a permanent member of the board and sits on a variety of project management committees (PMCs).
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